2017 is the sixth year that GEM has tracked in the UAE rates of entrepreneurship activity and assessed the characteristics, motivations, and ambitions of entrepreneurs, the attitudes of UAE society towards entrepreneurship and the quality of its entrepreneurial ecosystem. This report includes results based on 4000 working-age individuals (between the ages of 18 and 64 years) completing the Adult Population Survey (APS) and 36 experts completing the National Experts Survey (NES)